Word: extractionation
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. In Portland, Ore., the organizing committee of Earth Day is cosponsoring local festivities with "primary resource extractors" such as timber and mining companies. In return for the companies' sponsorship, the committee has agreed to soft-pedal the environmental issue most important to the Pacific Northwest--resource extraction. In a final...
Hazelwood's curious journey from villain to victim is not yet complete. The Coast Guard is expected to seek the revocation of his captain's license, and he remains a co-defendant with his former employer in more than 100 civil damage suits that will keep lawyers overpaid for years...
Meanwhile, North Africans were having a rough time in France as well. There, three men of Maghrebian extraction were slain in separate attacks.
Kupreyev even had to be careful about the ethnic background of the soldiers under his jurisdiction. "A group of mothers came to me demanding either that their children not be called up or that they serve in their own territories," he recalls. "But can you imagine what would happen if...
Singh owns the place now, and one is unsure which jarring and inapposite piece of his biography best begins to explain him: That he is a former SDS organizer who is building a Ritz-Carlton hotel? Or that he is a developer whose fondest wish is to run away with...